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APT-CONFIG(8)			  apt-config			 APT-CONFIG(8)

NAME
       apt-config - APT Configuration Query program

SYNOPSIS
       apt-config [options] [-o config=string] [-c=file] command

DESCRIPTION
       apt-config  is  an internal program used by various portions of the APT
       suite to provide consistent configurability.  It accesses the main con‐
       figuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf(5) in a manner that is easy to use by
       scripted applications.

COMMANDS
       Unless the -h, or --help option is given, one  of  the  commands	 below
       must be present.

       shell  Used  to	access	the  configuration  information	 from  a shell
	      script.  It is given pairs of arguments, the first being a shell
	      variable	and  the  second the configuration value to query.  As
	      output it lists a series of shell assignments commands for  each
	      present value. In a shell script it should be used like:

	      OPTS="-f"
	      RES=`apt-config shell OPTS MyApp::Options`
	      eval $RES

	      This  will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value
	      of MyApp::Options with a default of -f.  .IP  The	 configuration
	      item  may	 be postfixed with a /[fdbi].  f returns file names, d
	      returns directories, b returns true or false and	i  returns  an
	      integer.	 Each of the returns is normalized and verified inter‐
	      nally.

       dump   Shows the contents of the configuration space.

OPTIONS
       All command-line options may be set using the configuration  file,  the
       descriptions  indicate  the  configuration  option to set.  For boolean
       options you can override	 the  config  file  by	using  something  like
       -f-,--no-f, -f=no or several other variations.

       -h, --help
	      Show a short usage summary.

       -v, --version
	      Show the program version.

       -c, --config-file
	      Configuration  File.   Specify a configuration file to use.  The
	      program will read the default configuration file and  then  this
	      configuration file.  See apt.conf(5) for syntax information.

       -o, --option
	      Set a Configuration Option.  This will set an arbitrary configu‐
	      ration option.  The syntax is -o Foo::Bar=bar.

SEE ALSO
       apt.conf(5)

DIAGNOSTICS
       apt-config returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.

BUGS
       Reporting bugs in APT-RPM is best done in the  APT-RPM  mailinglist  at
       http://apt-rpm.org/mailinglist.shtml.

AUTHOR
       Maintainer and contributor information can be found in the credits page
       http://apt-rpm.org/about.shtml of APT-RPM.

APT-RPM				  14 Jun 2006			 APT-CONFIG(8)

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